stockyard
Example Sentences
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The old farming dynasties are selling up their land to multinational conglomerates, and the stockyard jobs are gone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
A former overnight stockyard worker, he collects, weighs and tags hams before pushing them into an industrial cooler.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2020
Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
It was here, in what Chicagoans called a “streetcar” suburb, that stockyard supervisors chose to settle, as did officials of companies headquartered in the skyscrapers of the Loop.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
